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discussed in biography

…statue of their patron saint, John the Baptist, for a niche on the outside of the guilds’ communal building, Orsanmichele. The job was a bold undertaking, Ghiberti’s first departure from goldsmith-scale work; it was, in fact, the first large bronze in Florence. Ghiberti successfully finished the St. John in 1416,…

Renaissance sculpture

…statue since antiquity, his “St. John the Baptist” (1412–16) for Or San Michele. Although the figure and its draperies reveal Ghiberti’s strong adherence to a late Gothic style, with this work he moved technically into the Renaissance. The influence of Donatello and Nanni di Banco liberates the “St. Matthew”…